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俯瞰賓州大峽谷We toured Pine Creek Gorge in north-central Pennsylvania, USA on October 21, 2009 in the autumn season. These are three impressive views of Pine Creek Gorge as viewed from East Rim Viewing Platform.

Zoom in on the southern end of East Rim Viewing Platform as viewed from West Rim Viewing Platforms.

We took the 15-mile drive on mountainous winding roads to go from East Rim Viewing Platform to West Rim Viewing Platforms. The road goes from West Rim down to the bottom of the gorge at Ansonia, then goes up to the West Rim. The scenery on such winding mountainous roads is quite beautiful and colorful in the autumn season as shown in the following photos.

Zoom in on the East Rim Viewing Platform as viewed from the West Rim Viewing Platforms.

Another view of the East Rim Viewing Platform

Another part of East Rim as viewed from West Rim. Autumn makes its mark on these mountains, and in lovely ways

One of several turkey vultures in flight over the gorge

Autumn foliage at the parking lot of one of two West Rim Viewing Platforms in Colton Point State Park.

Near the north end of Pine Creek Gorge

遍地綠草如茵。

A roadside golf course on Highway 6 along our way going to Pine Creek Gorge

The leaves burst into flames of reds, oranges, and yellows along scenic Highway 6 in northern Pennsylvania

This overlook area was once a lookout post high above the Susquehanna River for American Indian villages in the fertile valley below. The Great Warrior Path was an American Indian trail leading north to the lake region and south to the Carolinas passed through the area.

Pine Creek in Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon is the largest tributary of the West Branch Susquehanna River. I am happy to come to the source of the Susquehanna River because I have been enjoying watching many bald eagles in the winter season near the mouth of Susquehanna River flowing into Chesapeake Bay in Maryland as described in my Travelogue web page at:

East Rim Viewing Platform in Leonard Harrison State Park : From Wellsboro take Highway 660 (i.e., Main Street) to go south-west for ten miles through several turns all the way to the end in Leonard Harrison State Park. There are signs to the “Grand Canyon” along the way. Followed the signs and stayed on Highway 660 all the way to Leonard Harrison State Park, the site of Pine Creek Gorge. There is a long parking lot that loops past the visitor center and the Viewing Platforms that overlook the deep gorge.

West Rim Viewing Platforms in Colton Point State Park: From the small village of Ansonia on Highway 6, take Forest Road to go south through several turns for several miles into the Colton Point State Park to reach the two parking lots near the two West Rim Viewing Platforms.

A map for Colton Point State Park and Leonard Harrison State Park is available at the following website:

One can drive through 15 miles of winding mountainous roads to go from the East Rim Viewing Platform in Leonard Harrison State Park to reach the West Rim Viewing Platforms in Colton Point State Park by the following steps:

1. From Leonard Harrison State Park, take Hwy 660 to go east for a few miles,2. Turn left (north) into unpaved Copp Hollow Road for several miles to go down to the bottom of the gorge3. Turn left (north) into Daring Run road for a short distance4. Turn left into Hwy 362 to go northwest5. At the small village of Ansonia, turn left into Highway 6 to go west for a short distance6. Turn left into Forest Road to go south for several miles of winding and mountainous road to climb up and into Colton Point State Park.

Copy of the map for this 15-mile route between East Rim Viewing Platform and West Rim Viewing Platform can be obtained from the Visitor Center near the East Rim Viewing Platform in Leonard Harrison State Park.

These two state parks are in the 6-million Points of Interest in my GPS navigator. When I was within about 10 mile distance of these two state parks, I asked my GPS navigator to show all Points of Interest in nearby area. These two state parks showed up on the list. So, I just pointed my finger at the state park on the list on the screen and the GPS navigator guided me smoothly through several turns to reach each of these two state parks.

It takes about 4.5 hours to drive from mid New Jersey to Pine Creek Gorge. We spent one and half day for this trip so that we had more time to drive leisurely for sightseeing and photography along the way. We stayed one night in a hotel on the shore of beautiful Lake Wallenpaupack at Hawley in the Pocono Mountains with a fantastic lake view.

Pine Creek Gorge as viewed from West Rim Viewing Platform. The Pine Creek Rail Trail at the bottom of the gorge follows Pine Creek on the former railroad bed for 64 miles.

Pine Creek Gorge is known as Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon and is in north-central Pennsylvania. The gorge plummets 1,450 feet ( 442 m) from the rim to the deepest part, and the gorge is oriented in north-south direction with north end at the small village of Ansonia on Highway 6 west of Wellsboro. From there, the gorge extends south for 46 miles.

Autumn is the most breathtaking time of the year to come. That’s when the brilliant reds, yellows and purples of the turning leaves blaze across the mountains illuminating the stunning grandeur of Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon.

Glacially Carved Canyon: Vast sheet of ice, hundreds of feet think, of ancient glacier inched over this landscape like a giant bulldozer. Several such ancient glaciers sculpted this landscape. As the last glacier receded north more than 10,000 years ago, its melt-waters helped carve Pine Creek's deep gorge. Today, the Pine Creek continues to deepen gradually the Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon.

Autumn scenery along the roads going from East Rim Viewing Platform to West Rim Viewing Platforms

Zoom in on the autumn foliage in the gorge

Two views of autumn foliage at the parking lot of East Rim Viewing Platform in Leonard Harrison State Park.

湖岸秋色， 夢鄉的黃金樹， 鮮明艷麗， 風光極美。

Four Views at the southwestern end of beautiful Lake Wallenpaupack in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania on our way going to Pine Creek Gorge. This small marina is at the very beginning of the lake, at the mouth of the Wallenpaupack Creek.